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Walking Each Other Home Through this World

Transcript: Rosanne Cash on being honored with the Edward MacDowell Medal on July 1, 2021 for her contributions to the American songbook and for being seen. Kurt, thank you for that. To be seen like that is the greatest gift, and I really treasure our friendship. And thank you Roz Chast…
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Freedom to Connect

It was a different world: February of last year. We were in the final days of American ignorance about how profoundly COVID-19 would change everything. At the time, we thought maybe it would be like SARS, or Ebola, or some other foreign epidemic that we could keep out of sight…
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MacDowell Stands With Afghanistan’s Cultural Workers

MacDowell has joined hundreds of artists and arts organizations in signing an open letter to the U.S. government to do everything in its power to add Afghan artists, filmmakers, performers, writers, and curators to the groups of their countrymen being evacuated from the country. Many art makers in Afghanistan live…
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MacDowell Approaches Full Capacity, Awards Fellowships for Fall-Spring to 136 Artists

Record number of applications leads to international contingent of art makers from seven countries and 25 U.S. states. MacDowell, the nation’s first artist residency program, awarded Fellowships to 178* artists from 25 U.S. states and seven countries. The incoming Fellows reflect multiple artistic disciplines and will arrive from places such…
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Invisible No More!

The historic appointment of Deb Haaland as U.S. Secretary of the Interior can be traced to the Indigenous-led movement against the illegal construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline across sacred lands at Standing Rock. It was and is a powerful example of how social media, video, photography, music, art, dance…
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